A prominent open-source dev publishes their findings as to what's going on with Starfield's performance, and it's pretty darn strange.

According to Hans-Kristian Arntzen, a prominent open-source developer working on Vkd3d, a DirectX 12 to Vulkan translation layer, Starfield is not interacting properly with graphics card drivers.

  • regbin_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    137·
    1 year ago

    I love Starfield and has been playing it every day since launch. It runs like dogshit. Sure it doesn’t stutter or anything but I can’t, for the life of me, get the average FPS in outdoor areas to be anything higher than 70. 5800X + 3080 Ti. It doesn’t matter how much I lower the setting, the CPU overhead is crazy.

    • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      154·
      1 year ago

      so it does not stutter or anything and it does run on an average of 70fps outside and in taxing environments and you are describing this as dogshit?

      lol. no further questions.

        • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
          117·
          1 year ago

          I won’t click on a LinusTechTip Link 😀

          And I dont say the game could be better optimised, but to say that a stutter-free expierence with an average of 70 fps is “runing like dogshit” is some kind of special. Could it be better, yes, is it running like dogshit, nope.

          • stonedemoman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            66·
            1 year ago

            🤦 So you’ll just continue to ignore overwhelming evidence and get defensive. It’s ironic you’d call them special.

            • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
              115·
              1 year ago

              70 fps on average without any kind of wrong framepacing or stuttering is not “running like dogshit”, thats my whole point, “mate”. If the the game would run with 30 fps and crazy frame spikes on modern hardware I would agree but to call a >60fps stutterfree expierence that is just supid, on every game.

              • stonedemoman@lemmy.worldEnglish
                57·
                1 year ago

                If you wouldn’t call having your performance more than halved dogshit, I don’t really give a fuck what you have to say.

                • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  46·
                  1 year ago

                  I don’t really give a fuck what you have to say.

                  Feel free to not answer to my posts. Please. I’m more than fine never to hear from you again…

            • Stahlreck@feddit.chEnglish
              63·
              1 year ago

              He’s kinda right though. You are partially too, the game doesn’t run great but it runs fine. Definitely not dogshit. Hogwarts ran way worse for what it was with similar performance but also tons of stuttering on the best setups not to mention lots of crashing in multiple big AAA games this year. Starfield afaik has none of that, it just has lower than expected FPS but not terribly so.

      • regbin_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If I set the resolution to 1024x768 and the graphics to Low but the FPS is still the same, something is wrong.